Young singer-songwriter Eva Croissant plays the melancholy song “Schäm dich was” (“Shame on You”).

After Lena Meyer-Landrut’s Grand Prix victory with “Satellite”, Uwu Lena changed this song ever so slightly. The result is the World Cup song ”(Ger)many oh (Ger)many.”

Die Gestiefelten Zwerge [The Booted Dwarves] themselves call their song “Am Kap der Hoffnung steht der Cup” [At the Cape of Good Hope Is the Cup] the song of the Worldcup 2010, in the hopes that it will help the German team score.

Within 66 seconds, Arabella explains to women what a hattrick in soccer is. A video by beQueen.

The city of Offenburg has prepared itself for the upcoming Bambi awards show. Barbara Schöneberger takes a look around the city. A video by beQueen.

In the second part of our interview, the German pop-rock band Luxuslärm talks about their plans for the immediate future.

Soul singer Cassandra Steen is interviewed about her voice acting role in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, and asked about her unusual height.

In this first part of this unit on conjunctions, you will find out which words belong to this group. Also, with the help of the conjunction “weil" '['because'], you will learn how to correctly use them. Listen in, learn and "viel Vergnügnung beim Deutschlernen!"

In the second part of the report from Oktoberfest, Arabella of beQueen meets a horse and a real Bavarian.

Team captain Jérôme Boateng analyses the reasons for losing against the Czech Republic team at the Under-21 European Championship Qualifying Round.

German band Sportfreunde Stiller cover Udo Jürgens’ hit song “Ich war noch niemals in New York” (“I’ve Never Been to New York”).

Frankfurt United’s new defender Maik Franz, aka Iron-Maik, tests the new Call-Bike system of the German Railway.

Germany’s best tap dancers were cast and appeared as an opening act for the show “Riverdance”.

If you would like to attend the Oktoberfest, you will need to know a bit of Bavarian dialect. Here is a little crash course from

“Miss 66” Arabella explains the knockout system in soccer a little differently – and she only has 66 seconds to do it! A video by beQueen.